Yo home skillets.
So I got back from the rather delightful Miami yesterday. Had a lush time with Mum, relaxed a ton - hardly did much else.
Have to say the culture shock was.. a real... shock. There's lots I could say about it but I'm not even going to go into it right now because I am supposed to be getting an early (1am) night.
But I am back in the land of Chile, and loving getting stuck right in again. Plus someone told me today I spoke like a Chileno which I am super chuffed about. SCORE.
Will be back on Viña Adventure watch prontissimo.
Back in London for 2 weeks in 2 weeks!
X
Sunday, 28 November 2010
Thursday, 18 November 2010
tea
oh my gaaaasssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh!!1!!!??
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Monday, 15 November 2010
baptisms
On Sunday after the service about 8 people from the church got baptized in the sea! Here are some pics.
my first talk
Yo dudes, from sunny Miamaaayyyyy!
Just wanted to tell you how Saturday went. As I mentioned last time I was giving the talk to the Jóvenes Plus group, my first ever 'talk', as in doing the sermon bit, except less like a sermon more like a talk because it's just to a small group as opposed to a Sunday congregation.
It was on the transformation we have in Jesus.
[The verses for anyone who's interested: Mark 2:17, John 9:39, Galatians 5:1, Matthew 8:1-17.]
The writing of the talk wasn't as hard as I thought it could have been, the Lord gave me the verses really clearly, and from that I was praying about the message that they gave together - ie. what God wanted to say through them.
I had been planning to give it in Spanish, and had written all my notes in Spanish etc. But then on the day I was going over it with Ary, and because my notes weren't a word for word speech but more just like leading sentences, I was having real difficulty being precise with the blurb I was saying in between. To the point that I started crying because I just hadn't been prepared for how... incorrect I was being with my Spanish. I don't think I was very mentally prepared for the Spanish being such a barrier, still. So we decided really easily to just do it in English and have Danny or Ary translate it as I went, which we did.
When the time came to give it (praise God that people were there, unlike the time before!) I started feeling really out of it, and like I had no words or train of thought or anything. So I kind of just opened my mouth with something, anything... But then ended up feeling stupid, something about having someone translate everything you say pressures you to say something really valuable, worth translating! So I ended up feeling like I couldn't be my bantery self, plus the practicality of translating half sentence by half sentence just totally killed whatever flow I had expected to have. I think it was just a real attack to be honest, I felt so out of it, like I wasn't really there, with no sense of time or the point of what I saying. I couldn't remember what I had said already, or what I still needed to say, and I couldn't tell what the important bits were or if they were going in.
So needless to say by the end I felt pretty awful.
But thankfully from what I've heard since it didn't come across that way. Phew or what?! Apparently it actually made sense and flowed well. So thank God for that.
Also, miraculously, don't have any fear (despite everything) at the concept of doing it again. Just looking forward to the day that I can do so in Spanish.
X
Just wanted to tell you how Saturday went. As I mentioned last time I was giving the talk to the Jóvenes Plus group, my first ever 'talk', as in doing the sermon bit, except less like a sermon more like a talk because it's just to a small group as opposed to a Sunday congregation.
It was on the transformation we have in Jesus.
[The verses for anyone who's interested: Mark 2:17, John 9:39, Galatians 5:1, Matthew 8:1-17.]
The writing of the talk wasn't as hard as I thought it could have been, the Lord gave me the verses really clearly, and from that I was praying about the message that they gave together - ie. what God wanted to say through them.
I had been planning to give it in Spanish, and had written all my notes in Spanish etc. But then on the day I was going over it with Ary, and because my notes weren't a word for word speech but more just like leading sentences, I was having real difficulty being precise with the blurb I was saying in between. To the point that I started crying because I just hadn't been prepared for how... incorrect I was being with my Spanish. I don't think I was very mentally prepared for the Spanish being such a barrier, still. So we decided really easily to just do it in English and have Danny or Ary translate it as I went, which we did.
When the time came to give it (praise God that people were there, unlike the time before!) I started feeling really out of it, and like I had no words or train of thought or anything. So I kind of just opened my mouth with something, anything... But then ended up feeling stupid, something about having someone translate everything you say pressures you to say something really valuable, worth translating! So I ended up feeling like I couldn't be my bantery self, plus the practicality of translating half sentence by half sentence just totally killed whatever flow I had expected to have. I think it was just a real attack to be honest, I felt so out of it, like I wasn't really there, with no sense of time or the point of what I saying. I couldn't remember what I had said already, or what I still needed to say, and I couldn't tell what the important bits were or if they were going in.
So needless to say by the end I felt pretty awful.
But thankfully from what I've heard since it didn't come across that way. Phew or what?! Apparently it actually made sense and flowed well. So thank God for that.
Also, miraculously, don't have any fear (despite everything) at the concept of doing it again. Just looking forward to the day that I can do so in Spanish.
X
Thursday, 11 November 2010
nov week 2
It's been super busy for me this week, which has felt good because next week I'm jetting off to Miami with my Mum, so it's kinda like a final push of productivity before lounging around a lot (or so I hope).
Ary and I have been spending a lot of time preparing for the bimonthly Jóvenes Plus group this Saturday - this is the very recent group I mentioned shortly after I arrived here. There have been some real difficulties in getting it going, prime example from last time when no one came, and so it's been really great actually spending proper time praying about it, and doing things practically to get it going. This week I'll be giving the talk (eek?!) and so have been preparing for that (yes please pray for me!) although thank God I have been feeling good about it so far and He has shown me verses and is inspiring me so yeah. Also been doing more administrative things like collecting all the contact information of that age group and and emailing / texting / and calling them to let them know about the meeting. Really praying that we see fruit with this group - and expecting that we will, even if not this time, because we really believe God wants a place for these guys to meet and receive the word.
Have also been going, as usual, to the regular meetings and doing fun stuff like the Morrisons monthly shop at 8am this morning, and buying suncream and beach towels cuz yeah I live near a beach lol - sorry I proooomise I will deliver picture evidence of this when i have time to: this is a serious issue right now, but hey I am not complaining! And lying on car bonnets at midnight and contemplating the world while stargazing, and eating till I explode, and then realizing my trousers don't fit me anymore and then trying to not eat and failing miserably. Bye bye any hope of a bikini body.
Ciao,
la gringita gorda
X
Ary and I have been spending a lot of time preparing for the bimonthly Jóvenes Plus group this Saturday - this is the very recent group I mentioned shortly after I arrived here. There have been some real difficulties in getting it going, prime example from last time when no one came, and so it's been really great actually spending proper time praying about it, and doing things practically to get it going. This week I'll be giving the talk (eek?!) and so have been preparing for that (yes please pray for me!) although thank God I have been feeling good about it so far and He has shown me verses and is inspiring me so yeah. Also been doing more administrative things like collecting all the contact information of that age group and and emailing / texting / and calling them to let them know about the meeting. Really praying that we see fruit with this group - and expecting that we will, even if not this time, because we really believe God wants a place for these guys to meet and receive the word.
Have also been going, as usual, to the regular meetings and doing fun stuff like the Morrisons monthly shop at 8am this morning, and buying suncream and beach towels cuz yeah I live near a beach lol - sorry I proooomise I will deliver picture evidence of this when i have time to: this is a serious issue right now, but hey I am not complaining! And lying on car bonnets at midnight and contemplating the world while stargazing, and eating till I explode, and then realizing my trousers don't fit me anymore and then trying to not eat and failing miserably. Bye bye any hope of a bikini body.
Ciao,
la gringita gorda
X
Sunday, 7 November 2010
the start of the summer
Last week a lovely lassie I met out in France with Jules this summer was in Viña, the faberluss Caroline King. Going out to meet her for lunch last Saturday was my first solo voyage into town on the bus, which very nicely marked my 1 month in Chile. It's actually a long time to not go anywhere on your own (apart from walking to Church), which I'm slightly ashamed of, but I think you really do need to know quite a lot or have done the journeys a lot before venturing on your own here... Fortunately I feel super confident and planned my route going through town so I could do a couple of errands first and then walked to go and meet her, without a map. So pretty chuffed at feeling like I have a sense of direction here.
Then on Monday it was another bank holiday, and the Morrisons invited me along to a day out at a resort inland to celebrate some birthdays, along with Danny's sister and her family. All day by the pools, and ate SO MUCH.
Otherwise it's been what I guess is now becoming a 'normal week'.
Yesterday after youth all the youth went round to the house of one of the girls, and had a late night barbecue.
Oh yeah, guess I should probably mention the point of the subject of the post - it is starting to get HOT here, like almost 30 degrees. The trend so far has been 2 days of crazy heat and then a grey day, possibly even rain, and then gradually clearing up to sweltering again.
Also, for some unknown reason I have become unusually motivated to start some sort of a dance class here, after spending a bit too much time on youtube watching videos like this:
(clearly love this song a bit too much)
And my personal favourite:
Tons of them have video tutorials.
Michael is on it and I think this might actually happen. Will keep y'all posted.
X
Then on Monday it was another bank holiday, and the Morrisons invited me along to a day out at a resort inland to celebrate some birthdays, along with Danny's sister and her family. All day by the pools, and ate SO MUCH.
Otherwise it's been what I guess is now becoming a 'normal week'.
Yesterday after youth all the youth went round to the house of one of the girls, and had a late night barbecue.
Oh yeah, guess I should probably mention the point of the subject of the post - it is starting to get HOT here, like almost 30 degrees. The trend so far has been 2 days of crazy heat and then a grey day, possibly even rain, and then gradually clearing up to sweltering again.
Also, for some unknown reason I have become unusually motivated to start some sort of a dance class here, after spending a bit too much time on youtube watching videos like this:
(clearly love this song a bit too much)
And my personal favourite:
Tons of them have video tutorials.
Michael is on it and I think this might actually happen. Will keep y'all posted.
X
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